Lover who brought down Boeing chief

Telegraph
By David Litterick in New York
(Filed: 10/03/2005)

The woman whose affair with the boss of Boeing led to him being sacked from his $1.1 million-a-year job was named yesterday as an executive 20 years his junior.

Debra Peabody, a 48-year-old divorcee who worked for the plane-maker's chief government lobbyist, met Harry Stonecipher earlier this year at a corporate retreat in California.

Their affair became public on Monday when Boeing announced that it was firing Mr Stonecipher, a married father of two, for breaching the company's code of conduct - a code introduced by Mr Stonecipher and imposed on all the company's 160,000 staff.

According to reports, Miss Peabody, who had worked at Boeing for 25 years, only began her romantic entanglement with the the chief executive in January, when the pair attended a company event in Palm Desert, California. Their affair was only weeks old when an unnamed female employee obtained correspondence between the two - said to be of an intimate nature - and sent copies to the Boeing chairman, Lew Platt, and the company's ethics officials.

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Hypocritical bastard.

But why does she still have a job again?
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but unless Stonecipher's and Peabody's "affair" compromised their job performance, it's a private matter, and none of my business. Salacious articles like this just about make me barf.